In Spain," indeed! He would have got no closer than the Indies if I had not showed him how to do it. Stupid puppy.

I would be very, very uncomfortable at teaching, at dreaming to teach, people things.

One never gets the same summer twice.

I want to take you for pleasure, and hold you in my arms for desire. I want you to know that it is your kiss that I want, not another heir to the throne. You can know that I love you, quite for yourself, when I come to your bed, and not as the York’s broodmare.” I tilt back my head and look at him under my eyelashes. “You think to bed me for love and not for children? Isn’t that sin?” His arm comes around my waist and his palm cups my breast. “I shall make sure that it feels richly sinful,” - Edward IV to Elizabeth Woodville -

Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you cannot know what back they wash against.

If it means something, take it to heart. If it means nothing, it's nothing. Let it go.

I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.